Nothing like flagging on your run and the Elden Ring theme song coming on, screaming at you to GIT GUD.

STOP BRINGING MY SHIT INTO YOUR BULLSHIT

I just DEVOURED Single Player by @taratai.com and I’m in love. As a romance reader and gamer I have never felt such joy at seeing two of the things I adore the most be combined!! I LOVED this!! 🩷

🏳️‍🌈 This one is for the gaymers! 🎮 @taratai.com and I talked about the best romantic storylines in games, and how they wrote a rom-com about two game devs who butt heads while writing romantic storylines in a new video game. Meta! Listen in the Rebel Ever After feed: open.spotify.com/episode/5QnE...

I had so much fun recording this! 😊

I can't get over this wonderfulness. 🥹

Some days, you share an elevator with a PEN/Hemingway award winner but don't recognize her, and when she asks about your Baldur's Gate 3 shirt, you tersely say, "It's an owlbear." Then you see the line for people waiting to get books signed by her and realize your mistake. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hi from Pax East!

See y'all at PAX. Didn't have enough time to get my Lune cosplay together so I'll be Alta from Wanderstop. Ask me for tea. (Really.)

Wife scored a free exhibitor pass to #paxeast, and if that's not the single most Single Player Cat Li thing to happen to us, idk what is.

Just started reading Single Player by @taratai.com and as a queer person who left a steady career in healthcare admin to go to school for game dev, I feel so seen lol

If you're a type A, chronically burnt out person and want to cry at least once an hour, I highly recommend Wanderstop. What a deeply clever, deeply introspective, not-quite-cozy game.

aloha Boston!!! if you know me, you KNOW I'm a big gamer. come to Panethnic Pourovers on April 25th and listen to me and @taratai.com yap about heist movies, romances in video games, and our TTRPG characters! admission is free, but RSVP at the link in the comments!

It feels like shouting into the void these days because it seems like a lot of allos don’t care, but when our own community doesn’t care either? Yikes. Anyway in case it helps reach even one more ace person… a lot of my books have ace rep! These are some!

Gosh... Split Fiction. What a masterpiece. Literally dripping with creativity. GenAI could never.

im gonna scream if I see one more well-intentioned person be like AI is bad but I only use it for cover letters/travel itineraries/dumb innocuous thing. It uses SO much WATER!!!! It is bad for the EARTH. Just write that shit yourself you will be FINE. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Tonight at 7PM! @erikaishii.bsky.social and I talk about queer chaos gremlin gamedevs and swoony romances at @geekyteas.bsky.social. Come on out and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/yex4ac8a 🌈!

We were happy to talk with Tara Tai. They are an Asian American writer. Their love of video games and tabletop RPGs has led to their first novel, “Single Player”, which has just come out. Check us out on YouTube! @taratai.com youtu.be/D1r7rzVZzA4

Hell yes!

SINGLE PLAYER author event coming your way, LA. See you next Tuesday, March 25, at @geekyteas.bsky.social with the inimitable @erikaishii.bsky.social 🎮! Make sure to RSVP 💛.

One hour into Split Fiction and I can't stop grinning. What an awesome co-op adventure game. Thank you, @hazelightgames.bsky.social ✨!

Finally got to meet @taratai.com in Atlanta! One of my fave debut authors of the past year, I rec her book, Single Player, at every opportunity. Well-written, hilarious, sapphic, and nerdy as hell. 5 big stars. And the book swag she brought to the event was SO CUTE!! #booksky 💙📚 🌶️📚 🌈 📚

Have y'all tried writing? It's, like, the hardest thing in the world. ⚰️

Yayyy happy reading and happy Valentine's Day! 💘

Yes, 'tis true. My book was featured in PEOPLE, thanks to @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social, who's quite simply the best of all people everywhere. Stoked to see so much queer 🌈 and bipoc 💛 rep on this list. people.com/authors-reco...

“You want your taxes to pay for an immigrant to—“ YES! Yes! I want my taxes to pay for asylum and housing and schools and affordable health care! Sign me the fuck up! That’s why I want a government!

Just romance writer drafting woes: I can't tell if this is dumb... Or hot.

"I can’t think of a more appropriate finale than one that feels like it represents the world its creators hope to see, even as the world we live in now gives us every reason to fall to despair." Well said 👏🏼.

🐉 DnD'd 🦄 for the first time since my book came out and everything thereafter. 3 hours of PCs and NPCs flirting and playing "Never Have I Ever" as an in-game reprieve from world-ending events. I feel so healed. Play more games, y'all. It helps a lot. 💛

The BioWare layoffs are such a gut punch. Mass Effect and Dragon Age saved me in small and big ways (and obviously heavily influenced my writing as well). I hope all those devs out there know they're frickin' heroes (of the galaxy, of Ferelden, etc.).

NorCal friends! Tonight: catch me and the incomparable @taleenvoskuni.bsky.social at Books, Inc - Mountain View at 7 PM. It's a Lunar New Year special, and we'll be talking about all things love and nerdiness. ❤️ @booksinc.bsky.social

📚 Giveaway 📚 time! Check out how to enter below!

Oh-em-gee, when I say I based this book in CO because of True Colors and Steph’s Story by @rosieethor.bsky.social was one of my favs of 2023. 🥹

I'm never more upset about my Chinese illiteracy than when RedNote is showing me the cutest, twee-est, lesbian manhwa. #le #wlw #小红书

THE meme of 2025 for me.

It's a "practice your DnD monster voices in the gym locker room and get weird looks" kind of day.

morning buds; be the gaymer you want to see in the world (illustrious art by the inimitable @jbailey1717.bsky.social )

Now, more than ever, we have got to commit to being full of whimsy

Pretty sure I just saw Cat on my flight to Colorado... ✅ East Asian ✅ Pink nail polish ✅ Big stuffed moose on her backpack ✅ Hoodie that literally reads CAT #SINGLEPLAYER

This is my new favorite photo. Specifically, the left hand side. Also, everyone tell @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social to play #baldursgate3. It is essential. 🫰🏼

The best uncle. 💕 Come out, New Yorkers! 🌈

The funniest thing about the looming #TikTok ban is how it's driving users to #RedNote. Friends, RedNote's name in Chinese is #小红书, aka Little Red Book. Aka the book containing Mao's aphorisms that every person had to carry around during the Cultural Revolution. 😅

Me, reading a book, musing out loud about a character: "Are you gayyy?" 👀 My wife, in the next room, enthusiastically: YES INDEEDY!!! 🌈

The pup looking out the window at the snow. @literarilyjess.bsky.social's stunner of a debut in the foreground. 🎶

My book, SINGLE PLAYER, a sapphic rom-com about two chaos gremlin gamedevs, is now out in the world. Go read it if you like narrative RPGs, DnD, and women and enbys being uselessly in love. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Today’s the day! My debut second chance romance about bringing the band back together, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, is out now from Berkley/Penguin Random House! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/754980...

HAPPY PUB DAY @taratai.com !!!!! Go buy SINGLE PLAYER right dang now.

Your honor, I love her. Photo credit goes to u/griseldaknox on Reddit. #dragonage #veilguard #nevegallus #promosky

Y'all, Life is Strange: Double Exposure is actually, like, really good? Also Amanda is the most well-adjusted, no drama video game lesbian ever. Best girl. #lifeisstrange #doubleexposure #promosky

F*cking thank god for this take. Support gay games, y'all. Even the ones that do a "mediocre" job with rep. The only way we dig ourselves out of this hole is if there's more, so we don't have only ONE nb LI in AAA gaming to point to.